Draw Eight

Oh Canada was sung by a young man and the whole place sang with him—it was very loud! As always, being my patriotic self, I was very pleased by this. I noticed that Jennifer Jones always sang, and she was especially congratulatory to the singer on this occasion. Many of the other curlers always sang... a little different from watching hockey where the players seem to be listening to something else entirely.

There was a crazy game on Sheet A: Ontario was down and despite scoring 2 in the 9th, they didn’t have enough time to properly set up the 10th for a steal—it was too bad. But Quebec was on a roll! Yay Quebec!

Jennifer Jones was never really pressured in her games against NWT, joking and the whole team was socializing with Kerry Koe’s team. She even threw Kerry a little ‘compliment’, saying loudly (and I heard, three sheets away): “I think this one’s going to cause trouble” about a NWT rock, when really she was in no trouble. There was a little falter in the middle, but all in all the team played well, their best game of the week thus far, I’d say.

Alberta also had their best game of the tournament, blowing away Manitoba, who I have been not at all impressed with.

The best game was on my side of the arena, Sheet C, NS versus Newfoundland. Heather Strong—she reminds me of a cute little pony, not in a bad way!—played a good, cool game and forced errors from NS, ultimately resulting in a great final end to score three points for the win.